Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t3.12
Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c7.s2.t3.12
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⁶⁵ “Ueber das indische Alphabet in seinem Zusammenhange mit den übrigen südsemitischen Alphabeten,” ZDMG 31, 1877, 598–612. Deecke proposed to derive both Brāhmī (“Indisch”) and Himyaritic from a hypothetical Ur-South Semitic script, which, in turn, was derived from Assyrian cuneiform. A similar idea was espoused by T. W. Rhys Davids in *Buddhist India* (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903), 114.